Green Salad with Apples and BLue Cheese Vinaigrette– a light and tasty sweet and savory combo.

Red Cabbage Slaw with a fresh Cranberry Vinaigrette– a little something light and healthy before the onslaught of holiday goodies!

Sourdough Whole Wheat Bread

Rice Salad with Dijon Marinated Tempeh, along with an easy equation for light meals in the interim between holidays

Cornbread Dressing with Fresh Herbs– a much loved, but much revised Thanksgiving side!

Hasselback sweet potatoes with a spicy lime vinaigrette

Coconut Green Curry with Chickpeas

Shrimp Bisque– our favorite lunch after a long walk in the woods on a chilly day, but it would also make a nice starter to a meal.

I made these cute little pasties for a cookery competition, inspired by my mum’s recipe for piroshki.

Basic Beef Stew {using pantry staples}

Roasted Butternut Squash with Avocado and Cilantro Vinaigrette

Cappuccino and nougat parfait (Recipe in English below)

A delicious cream with apple and onion (in Spanish)

Butterscotch Spiral Coffee Cake– a good excuse to enjoy a giant butterscotch flavored sticky bun!

Salmon fillets smoked in a bamboo steamer using tea leaves. An easy way to add a different flavor to your salmon.

Roasted Apple Butternut and Dill Soup

Homemade Bagels in under 2 hours!

Delicious tandoori chicken, perfect if you fancy a change to your weekend curry night.

Red and Green Cabbage Salad with Apples and Candied Almonds is a delightful dish on a warm Fall day.

Creamy corn chowder featuring sweet potatoes and a kick of hit from habanero peppers.

Spiced Apple Coffee Cake– moist from the cream cheese and spiced from the cardamom.

This 2 1/2 pound loaf of bread is actually Jim Lahey’s No-Knead on steroids!